Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contact has been made by the University with these intrepid and hard-working Crimeds, although some have suggested messages be placed in the Vanguard, which could be aimed at Russia. The Faculty, sympathizing with the students' display of devotion, has excused them from classes for several months...
...show up. He is also busy planning the Downstairs evacuation to another, larger catacomb. Selecting the site will not be easy. Says Monk's man Matthews: "People like to think they're discovering us." The problem: finding a new cavern capacious enough for another 50 or so intrepid spelunkers. carefully crummy enough to make them think they have discovered something...
...went instead to the G.O.P. state and national committees. Unable to afford TV saturation of New York's 2,400,000 voters, Christenberry has contented himself with strained sidewalk handshakes and alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation and intrepid inertia.") He has failed to make an issue out of crime, juvenile delinquency, or any other of the problems that vex New Yorkers: e.g., corruption charges against two Democratic city councilmen, city-choking traffic snarls, worsening public schools and the flight of the Giants and Dodgers to California...
...punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers. But by early afternoon, Blue carrier planes got through to make dummy atom attacks on Norway's ports, bridges and airfields. Into the midst of this earnest make-believe strayed...
...multiplication of bureaucrats does not make it easier to get things done, but harder. To justify their jobs, bureaucrats proliferate their duties. One intrepid Italian insists that he had to fill out pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People...